“”Power Pole Down Red Fishing”
Power Down Fishing
By Terry Lacoss
Making a long cast up a narrow saltwater feeder creek with the tide rushing in and a steady 20-knot wind on our Triton boat’s transom I felt a solid thud at the end of my rod tip. Immediately I reeled in my slack fishing line and set the jig hook into a nice creek redfish. However, by now the wind and tide was in danger of pushing our Triton boat right over my hooked redfish. With my spare hand I engaged both power poles which stopped my drifting boat. The power poles allowed me to fight my tournament size redfish which eventually placed my son Terry David and I in 4th place during last weekend’s “Jacksonville Power Pole Pro Redfish Tournament”.
Using a push pole to anchor your shallow water skiff
Simply every redfish team that weighed in redfish during the two-day event applauded their boat’s power poles and explained how the long-shafted units offered complete boat control while casting to and fighting redfish.
Joe Wortham and Chandler Altman topped all competitors with a winning two-day four redfish aggregate weight of 24.08-pounds. Upon receiving their 1st place check for $13,000.00, Joe Wortham explained to tournament director Kent Hickman that they simply would have not been able to win the event without the total boat control their boat’s power pole gave them.
